Voynich Decoded

[asteckley]

Andrew: I do believe that certain aspects of the MS make this kind of behavior more likely. Perhaps most important that the glyphs are easy to tell apart and they look like a regular European script. Words look like words. You don't have to think too much before you can get your theory going. Compare that to Linear A or the Rohonc Codex for contrast. 

Making a Voynich theory that feels plausible to the solver is just...easy. That's the trap.

That's fair enough. I guess I'm a little less forgiving of these proposed solutions (and their proposers) BECAUSE it is so easy to come up with illusory solutions of the quality we see  -- and when they are all so easily debunked.  And as I mentioned, any well-known unsolved cipher seems to attract a lot of those delusional claims --and in direct proportion to the puzzle's notoriety. 

I don't really fault Kris1212 for being concerned about protecting the hopeful solution, but the fact that he (she?) doesn't realize that the protection he seeks comes from revealing his solution as quickly and publicly as possible, and not from hiding, speaks to the likelihood that he is not seeing the situation objectively and has fallen to the same delusion.

(I think, when he implied that you approved the solution, I said the same thing to myself that many on this forum probably did;  "Well Koen will no doubt be posting a correction to that statement very shortly so I'lll just go a get a coffee while I wait for it".   )